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Scientists are also trying to find inborn personality traits that might make people more physically aggressive. The tendency to be a thrill seeker may be one such characteristic. So might "a restless impulsiveness, an inability to defer gratification," says psychologist Richard Herrnstein of Harvard, whose theories about the hereditary nature of intelligence stirred up a political storm in the 1970s. A high threshold for anxiety or fear may be another key trait. According to psychologist Jerome Kagan, also of Harvard, such people tend to have a "special biology," with lower-than-average heart rates and blood pressure...
...busy with outside deals, and they get shunted to junior agents." His boss Jeff Berg echoes that point: "My core business is managing the careers of talented people." This may be the major risk in Ovitz's expansive strategy; CAA clients could start to feel neglected and then restless, even if their fears were unjustified...
What Bell and the rest of Los Angeles fear most is how these idle and restless men will react if the verdicts in two explosive new trials are not to their liking. Only nine months after suffering the worst urban violence in the U.S. in this century, Los Angeles is bracing for trouble again. Already some youths are dusting off the NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE! placards that protesters waved last April when L.A. burst into flames after the acquittal of four white police officers in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King...
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are ourstrengths. Americans have ever been a restless,questioning hopeful people. We must bring to ourtask today the vision and will of those who camebefore...
...time when Israel and the Palestinians are attempting to negotiate peace, Israel's harsh action has put the PLO and mainstream Palestinians in a difficult position. The action has frustrated and angered a people already grown restless by the lack of progress made during the peace talks and by the steady worsening of the situation in the Occupied Territories...